![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. In fact this is not so, and the contradictions in their approaches suggest not simply different conceptions of socialism and capitalism but different conceptions of human nature. In addition to any actions that governments can take, there are also steps that people can. Does ‘progress’ require a powerful state to act on behalf of working people to improve their living and working conditions? Or does it rather require an enabling state to facilitate, through its own withering away perhaps, the proletariat’s attaining its own self declared interest? To put it more pithily: should the proletariat be given what it ‘needs’ or get what it ‘wants’? Since the writers we considered were for the most part socialists we might have expected some agreement as to how this paradox is to be resolved. laws the governments power to make decisions is not of much use. However, the alleviation of poverty (progress) can be seen to present a paradox. There was agreement amongst many of the writers we considered in the last chapter that the alleviation of poverty was both a moral and economic imperative. ![]()
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